Adriane Allison Rini is an American academic and professor of philosophy at

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in New Zealand. Her research interests include

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, and the

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Academic career

Rini earned a bachelor's degree at

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. She graduated with a PhD on

from the

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in 1997, with the thesis ''Modal Propositions in Aristotle's Syllogistic'' supervised by

Gareth Matthews Gareth B. Matthews (July 8, 1929 – April 17, 2011) was an American philosopher who specialized in ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, philosophy of childhood and philosophy for children. Biography Gareth Matthews was born in Buenos Aires, ...

. She moved to New Zealand in 1993 to Victoria University of Wellington, and in 1999 took a lecturing position at Massey University. She was promoted to full professor in 2018, with effect from 1 January 2019. Rini has received four Marsden grants, including a grant to study the significance of the work of New Zealand philosopher

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, who invented tense (or temporal) logic, and has been described as "laying the path to AI". In 2010 she was awarded a Foreign Fellowship at the

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, to study the development of

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's attitude to modal logic.

Selected works

Books

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Edited volume

*Reviews of ''Logical Modalities From Aristotle to Carnap'': * * *

Articles

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References

External links

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Interview with Rini on Radio New Zealand
16 November 2017 * Lecture by Adriane Rini,
The Women who brought Logic to America
', for Australasian Association for Logic, 20 May 2022 via YouTube Living people Modal logicians Women logicians New Zealand logicians New Zealand women philosophers Year of birth missing (living people) University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Academic staff of Massey University American emigrants to New Zealand Recipients of Marsden grants {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub